Word: discontentedness
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Each of three lectures a week is begun by the reading of some journalistic quotation regarding the political, social, or economic ideas of the staff. R. O. T. C. officials' views favor suppression of critics of the government, do not favor unions or income taxes. One article recently read before...
Again the grumble of discontented stomachs causes some headache to trouble-ridden John Harvard. Again his unruly crowd of pupils clamors for richer foods terrestrial, as if the fare of Learning were not enough to still the scholar's appetite. The battle-cry of Harvard's venerable past--"behold, the...
One other function the Party has served: as a more or less accurate gauge of the country's fevers. In 1912, when the U. S. was beset by restless Labor, debt-ridden farmers and a discontented West, the vote for a Socialist for President shot up. Up it shot...
"He was equally interested," Dr. Gesell continued, "in the pouting of the European child, of Kafir, Fingo, Malay, Abyssinian, Orang and Chimpanzee. [He found] that discontented primates protrude their lips to an extraordinary degree, Europeans to a lesser degree, but that among young children lip protrusion is characteristic of sulkiness...
Chapter 1: The Wireless Set. Late in October 1939, clever Gestapo agents, posing as discontented Germans, managed to make contact with certain naïve British intelligence officers in The Hague. The British got to like their "friendly opponents," and soon gave them a transmitting and receiving apparatus containing three...